Sometimes Others Need To Do This To Us.

Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica : It has been one of the better skies of this long night. In parts of Antarctica, not only is it winter, but the Sun can spend weeks below the horizon. At China’s Zhongshan Station, people sometimes venture out into the cold to photograph a spectacular night sky. The featured image from one such outing was taken in mid-July, just before the end of this polar night. Pointing up, the wide angle lens captured not only the ground at the bottom, but at the top as well. In the foreground is a colleague also taking pictures. In the distance, a spherical satellite receiver and several windmills are visible. Numerous stars dot the night sky, including Sirius and Canopus. Far in the background, stretching overhead from horizon to horizon, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Even further in the distance, visible as extended smudges near the top, are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies near our huge Milky Way Galaxy. via NASA

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Image is Powerful: Cameron Russell at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012

“15 Men React To The Idea Of Taking Their Wife’s Last Name After Marriage”

[Dominant groups don’t see privilege as a problem…] because they think it’s just a personal problem. They think individuals usually get what they deserve, which makes the trouble just a sum of individual troubles This means that if whites or males get more than others, it’s because they have it coming - they work harder, they’re smarter, more capable. If other people get less, it’s up to them to do something about it.

Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference (via wretchedoftheearth)

I was driving past a business here in the Houston Heights, when I glimpsed this painted on the side of the building. I recognized that iconic WWII poster before I realized it was not just any woman, but 14 year old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was attacked for wanting an education. The words next to her are her quote, ( “I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school.) All I want is education. And I’m afraid of no one.”

Heteronormativity is heterosexuality raised to the second power: it is heterosexuality not as an erotic orientation or even a compulsory regime that brooks no alternatives, but heterosexuality as the template for all forms of meaningful social organization.

Orgasmology, Annamarie Jagose (via conventionalityisntmorality)

unpaid internships are oppressive and should be illegal i’m not being cute or funny they are 100% designed to reward people with greater access to resources and i’m fundamentally opposed to hiring for unpaid labor every internship should be required to provide at least a nominal stipend

we don’t need to live in this world. we just don’t. there is no beauty in this story other than the beauty of seeing it shared to remind us that we don’t need to live in this world.

How do we change these policies?

Colorado Lunch Lady Fired for Giving Kids Free Meals Says She’d Do It Again http://ift.tt/1JoLWZu